Cahermoanteen
Cahermoanteen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cathair Mhóintín.
- Area
- 103.8 ha
- 257 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,474 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermoanteen, from 50 m² to 510,697 m² (51.07 ha, 126.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cahermoanteen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Construction of dwelling house, installation of waste water treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/465
7 Feb 2017Conditional
Permission sought for construction of dwelling house, installation of waste water treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/68
9 Jan 2013Conditional
Works to existing dwelling house; (i) Construction of two storey extension to rear and (ii) Installation of 3no. roof lights
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6
20 Dec 2012Incompleted application
The following works to existing dwelling house: (i) construction of two storey extension to rear and (ii) installation of 3 no. roof lights
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/781
18 Aug 2006Conditional
Removal of existing septic tank and for relocation and installation of new mini-treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1640
28 Jun 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1226
24 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Small hydro-power scheme comprising river intake, 1.15km buried pipeline & turbine building incorporating E.S.B room
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/321
23 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Construction of hydro-power scheme comprising of river intake, buried pipeline and turbine building from which the water abstracted will be returned in full to the river
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9881
29 Mar 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2043
21 Aug 2003Withdrawn
Retention of roof and conversion of mill to a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4201
28 Jun 2002Conditional
Dormer dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2777
12 Mar 1999Conditional
Conversion of Mill ruin to dwellinghouse, associated services and new entrance
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/1247
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahermoanteen.
Recorded monuments
- CO092-039 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, at W end of E-W ridge. Circular area (c. 32.5m N-S; c. 29.6m E-W) defined by scarp (H 4m) S->N; low earthen bank (H 0.65m) N->SE. Stone wall skirts outside earthen bank to E and SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahermoanteen.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cahermoanteen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cahermoanteen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cahermoanteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cahermoanteen · Cathair Mhóintín
- Area
- 1,038,116 m² (103.81 ha, 256.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Kealkill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 588 people lived in 208 households in the Kealkill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahermuckee, Carriganass, Kealkill, Lackareagh, Maughanaclea, Maulavanig
- Placenames
- Cahermoanteen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.